Chapter 161 The Charm of Soul Games
"The plot is roughly like this. The story this time is a continuation of "Hymn", and the game is called "Gods"." Qin Ge held a laser pen and drew it on the projection screen while laughing: "Time is "Hymn" "Three months after that, I came to the Southern District of Jinling City with the Cuboid Octahedron to seek a way to get rid of Glaaki's influence."
"I will introduce a new organization, the Umbrella Company. This organization has been collecting tokens and information of various gods for the purpose of pursuing the power of the gods. At the same time, many old people will appear, and Cthulhu's world view will be further revealed. ”
"But the main story this time is not in the current timeline, but in Yanan, which has sunk in the long river of time. This place is affected by an inexplicable force. Its history is cut off at a certain node, and players need to go back. That node frees it up.”
"I have almost created the scene in Yanan and the monsters in it with the help of an unknown friend. I would like to trouble you all about the scene in the southern district of Jinling City. The scene map has been sent to all the creators. You can take a good look at it.”
"This time the dreamland is a combination of horror and action. I believe it can bring players a brand new experience. I looked at the previous ratings and found that only 99% of the players in "Anthem" find it scary. In order to provide the 1% of players with It also brings a wonderful experience, so I decided to only allow three people to play online this time.”
"Having ten people online at one time is still too much. I can't create the ultimate sense of terror. My abilities are indeed insufficient." Qin Ge shook his head in shame.
The main creative staff who filled the conference room all twitched their mouths when they heard this. If the person in front of them was not the boss who paid their wages, they would really want to drag him for a genetic test to see how many people he contains. .
"Mr. Qin, if we want to add action elements, then we have to develop skills and action systems. On the one hand, it is difficult to attract players without gorgeous skills. There is only a gun counter and visceral critical strike system, and other moves It’s too plain and simple for players to wield their own weapons.”
"On the other hand, this is because we are not in the era of computer games. When players face monster attacks, they are the same as in reality. If the actions are not set in advance and they can be triggered by silently reciting the actions when the attack comes, it is often too late to react. Come on, it’s going to be very difficult.”
"Based on the above two points, I am worried that many players will be discouraged, so to be honest, I am not very optimistic about the prospects of this dreamland. Otherwise, we should abandon the previous action settings and simply follow the horror rules. This will It’s something we’re good at.”
Zhu Yin flipped through the text in front of him, his brows furrowed together. He had previously worked as a planner for major companies and was exposed to various types of dream games. He knew what attracted players to action games.
"It doesn't matter, the soul game does not rely on gorgeous skills to attract players. Its charm lies in defeating the strong with the weak, defeating powerful BOSSs with a small body, and trampling the BOSS under your feet after countless deaths. This sense of exhilaration is unmatched by other action games.”
Qin Ge didn't care about Zhu Yin's objections but explained carefully. Meetings are meant for everyone to express their opinions and gather their strengths. Otherwise, he could just delegate the tasks. Why would he spend so much time?
As a game producer, he has long studied the attractive features of Miyazaki's games. Even he has fallen into the trap of soul-based games and cannot extricate himself. Players have never had gorgeous skills in them. Even the plot is fragmented and needs to be pieced together and guessed.
But it has a very special charm that attracts players to go in one after another. Is there any place in Yanan Town that is not littered with corpses?
The resentment accumulated after dying dozens or hundreds of times will turn into a surge of pleasure when the BOSS is stepped on, bringing the player to the peak.
"Soul-based game?" Zhu Yin chewed on this unheard term, but still shook his head and said: "I still hold an objection."
"Human beings under Cthulhu are inherently humble and powerless. The only thing that can be used to fight against these indescribable things is incommensurable courage. If players are given various gorgeous skills and powerful moves, it will also destroy them to a certain extent. "Cthulhu's worldview." Qin Ge smiled and said, "Just do what I want. If anything goes wrong, I will be responsible."
Although everyone can express their opinions, he can only have one voice when making the final decision, and a team can only have one decision-maker, otherwise too many voices will make people lose their way.
"Okay." Seeing this, Zhu Yin didn't know what to say and could only nod in agreement.
"Work, let's teach some people what a real Cthulhu action game is." Qin Ge assigned tasks to everyone and watched them enter the dreamland. He himself was not in a hurry, because Yanan did not It doesn't require much change, and Jinling City South District doesn't require him to do it himself, so he has enough time to do other things first.
That's the warm-up.
"Mr. Qin, Wang Chenshi from Baihua came here and said he has an appointment with you." He didn't wait long before the door of the conference room was knocked open, and the newly hired receptionist said politely.
"Ask her to go to my office. I'll clean up and come over."
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Wang Chenshi was combing her hair facing the reflection of the background wall at the front desk. Her hair was a little messy because she hurried over all the way. The current Qin Ge is no longer the unknown dream maker who just made "Sadako". The popularity of several dreams in a row has pushed his popularity to the peak and made him a hotshot.
There are many editors in Baihua who are trying to get in touch with him in various ways so that they can get first-hand information at any time. Unfortunately, every interview invitation was rejected by Qin Ge.
Originally, she wanted to do another interview when "Anthem" broke the record, but she was worried that she would be rejected, so she hesitated and did not dare to send an invitation. Unexpectedly, Qin Ge took the initiative to contact her last night, saying that he had a new dream ready to develop, or a combination of Cthulhu and action, and wanted to warm up.
So she came here without even eating after finishing the last interview. She couldn't help but feel lucky that she took the initiative to help Qin Ge when he was not famous, and he still remembered this favor.
"Ms. Wang, please go to the office and wait. Mr. Qin just finished the meeting and will be here soon." The receptionist came out in high heels and guided her.
Wang Chenshi hurriedly thanked her, then walked into the office to look through the manuscript prepared for the interview. Currently, the only Cthulhu action game on the market is "Ghost Cry", which was removed from the shelves by Qin Ge.
So this is still a novel attempt. More importantly, it was made by Qin Ge, the founder of Cthulhu, which will undoubtedly attract everyone's attention. She wants to dig out more explosive points.
"Have you been waiting for a long time? What do you want to drink?" Qin Ge hurriedly walked in from outside, smiled and greeted, interrupting her thinking.